Galley



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V P. SHNIBDEW'END & J. L. LEE.

' GALLEY.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PAUL SHNIEDEWEND AND JAMES L. LEE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GALLEY.

EPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,607, dated September 18, 1888.

Application filed December 27, 1887. Serial No. 259.010. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- Be it known that we, PAUL SHNIEDEWEND and JAMES L. LEE, citizens of the United States, residing at Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Galleys, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the means employed by typefounders and dealers in type for holding the various lots of type from which small quantities are sold, usually termed sorts." Heretofore the type have been kept in separate packages, as received from the foundry,or else loose in boxes, from which small quantities for sorts are taken as desired; but both these methods are objectionable, because of the amount of space required, while the former is particularly so on account of the labor involved in constantly un doing and doing up the packages, for that must be done every time any of the type are taken out, to avoid pieing the remaining type,

i and to this the inconvenience ofarranging and keeping the same in proper order be done every time any of the type are taken out, to avoid pieing the remaining type. Keeping the type loose in boxes, besides taking up a great deal of room,is further objectionable, because of the injury to the type by battering and otherwise defacing them, which of course renders the type unfit for use, and therefore results in a considerable loss, all of which may be avoided by the devices hereinafter described.

The prime object of'tliis invention is to avoid the labor of handling the entire body of type when only a small quantity is desired,and also toavoid all danger of injury to the type, and at the same time to provide means for storing the type, whereby they will be easily accessible and the maximum quantity of type may be stored in the minimum space.

Another object is to provide a storage-galley for type of such a character that various kinds of type may be held separate in a single galley without liability to mixture or pieing, and at the same time be easily, accessible and removable in small quantities from the galle further object is to provide a transfergalley for use in connection with the storage galley, whereby the latter may be readily filled or partially filled without liability of pieing the type.

A still further object is to combine with a storage-galley a transfergalley of such a character that the latter will not only be prevented from shifting relative to the former in the act of transferring the type, but when placed in proper position relative thereto will beguided into and held in exact alignment with the storage-galley; and, finally, to so construct the transfergalley that the transferring of the type therefrom will be greatly promoted and the liability of pieing the same correspondingly reduced.

These objects are attained by the devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a galley-cabinet for containing the storage-galleys; Fig. 2, aplan view of ourcombined storage and transfer galleys.; Fig.3, a transverse section thereof on the line 00 x, and Fig. 4 a perspective view of a transfer-galley.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts in. the several figures of the drawings.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A indicates the storage-galleys, and B a cabinet or casing of'any well-known and convenient structure, provided with shelves or guide-strips, upon which the storagegalleys slide such a cabinet as is commonly used in printing establishments for containing the galleys. These storage-galleys A consist of a long rectangular base, C, preferably of wood, to which is secured, along one side edge only, a longitudinal strip, D, and at the ends transverse strips E, leaving the opposite side of the galley open, and at regular intervals along the base are also secured transverse strips F, dividing the galley into a series of compartments or sections, G, in which the type is placed for storage, each compartment preferably being for a singleletter. For the purpose of placing the type in these storage-galleys, we employ a transfer-galley, I, consisting of a square base, J, upon the upper face of which, along three edges thereof, are secured strips Kand L L, the ends of the latter next the open side of the galley projecting a short distance beyond the base and being notched or beveled,

as shown at a, so as to fit corresponding notches or bevels, b, made in or on the ends ofthe strips E and F of the storagegalley next the open side thereof, which notches or bevels are preferably formed inside of the line of the base. Hence, when the open side of thetransfer-galley is placed against the open side of the storage-galley, the corresponding bevels or notches on said galleys will guide the transfer-galley into proper position relative to the storagegalley, and as the inside space of the transfer-galley is exactly the same as one of the sections of the storage-galley, theinside edges of both of said galleys will be brought into exact alignment, and type contained in the former may easily he slid into any compartment in the storagegalley with which it is made to register. In addition to this, the projection beyond the base or interlocking of the ends of the strips on the transfer-galley with those of the storage-galley effectually prevent a longitudinal shifting of the transfer relative to the storage galley.

Another important feature of our transfergalley is that the bottom thereofthat is to say, the top of the base-is in a slightly higher plane than the bottom of the storage-galley, as shown in Fig. 3, so that whenever the type is slid from the transfer to the storage galley it will have a clear passage unobstructed either at the side or bottom, and therefore be in no danger of catching at the lower ends thereof and being pied.

The particular shape or angle of bevel of the projecting sarips on the transfer-galley,or the corresponding strips on the storage galley, is immaterial, so long as it serves to guide the two galleys so that the sections thereof will be in perfect alignment, and to hold the transfergalley from shifting relative to the storagegalley in the act of transferring the type.

After the type are placed in the storagegalley they are held in place and prevented from falling by the lead bars usually employed for that purpose, one being placed in each sec tion. Thus it will be seen that the type are not only stored in the smallest possible space, but in such a convenient manner that any small quantity of any letter may be readily taken from the main body of the stored type at the expense of little time and labor, and without danger of pieing.

Having described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. A storagegalley consisting of a base having two end strips and one side strip only, in combination with transverse strips intermediate the end strips, dividing the galley into compartments, substantially as described.

2. A storage-galley having compartments of equal dimensions opening at one side edge thereofonly,in combination with atransfer-galley of a size corresponding with a single com partment of the storage-galley, and having one side only open, substantially as described.

The transfengalley, the projecting side strips thereof having notched or beveled ends, in combination with the storage-galley and the divisionstrips thereof having ends notched or beveled corresponding to the projecting strips on the transfer-galley, substantially as described.

4. The storage-galley provided with a series of compartments, in combination with a transfer-galley the bottom of which is in a slightly higher plane than the bottom of said storage galley, substantially as described.

5. The storage-galley and the division-strips thereof having one end notched or beveled, in combination with a transfer-galley, the projecting side strips thereof having notched or beveled ends adapted to fit the notched or beveled ends of the strips on the storage-galley, the bottom of said transfer-galley lying in a plane slightly higher than the bottom of the storage-galley, substantially as described.

PAUL SHNIEDEWEND. JAMES L. LEE. \Vitnesses:

H. B. HOUSE, J. EDGAR LEE. 

